Putting evolutionary biology back in the ecological theatre: a demographic framework mapping genes to communities

Summary, in English

Question: How can we link genotypic, phenotypic, individual, population, and community levels of organization so as to illuminate general ecological and evolutionary processes and provide a framework for a quantitative, integrative evolutionary biology?

Framework: We introduce an evolutionary framework that maps different levels of biological diversity onto one another. We provide (1) an overview of maps linking levels of biological organization and (2) a guideline of how to analyse the complexity of relationships from genes to population growth.



Method: We specify the appropriate levels of biological organization for responses to selection, for opportunities for selection, and for selection itself. We map between them and embed these maps into an ecological setting.

• Author: T Coulson; T G Benton; Per Lundberg; S R X Dall; B E Kendall
• Department/s: Evolutionary ecology; Theoretical Population Ecology and Evolution Group
• Publishing year: 2006
• Language: English
• Pages: 1155-1171
• Publication/Series: Evolutionary Ecology Research
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 7
• Full text: - 291 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.evolutionary-ecology.com/issues/v08n07/ccar2021.pdf
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Evolutionary Ecology Ltd
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Status: Published
• Research group: Theoretical Population Ecology and Evolution Group
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1522-0613